Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Hopes & Fears. Chief antagonists in the running strategic argument at Fontainebleau are Montgomery and De Lattre, who are incompatible personally because they are so much alike. Both are vain and flamboyant, both love authority and leadership. But the basic division is not one of personality: it cuts far deeper, into national hopes & fears. Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense...
...Clean Passion. Outstanding on the other side of the reconciliation movement was a blond, blue & starry eyed young German drawing teacher, Otto Abetz. Under his leadership, the two countries exchanged students, published a Franco-German magazine at Stuttgart. Abetz attended a vacation camp in the Black Forest where French and German youths pledged themselves to pacifism and eternal friendship...
COORDINATION, UNDER U.S. LEADERSHIP, of British, Dutch, French and Portuguese policy in Asia. Out of desperation, the French and the Dutch, in the past few years, have taken some unwise steps; these could have been avoided if the inevitable retreat from imperialism had been organized jointly with strength and confidence...
Union leaders heard that Gallagher was about to render a rather favorable decision. That would never do. The union's Communist leadership had been losing ground with the non-Communist rank & file. A peaceful settlement might undermine the militancy of the miners-and their leaders' position. They threatened to strike unless Gallagher granted all their demands. Considering this threat to be blackmail, Gallagher refused to hand down any decision until the strike threat was withdrawn...
...Liberals had no idea it would be so easy. They were running under an untried leader, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who took over when the veteran Mackenzie King retired last year. The opposition Tory party had received vigorous new leadership from George Drew. Drew's strength in Ontario, where he had been three-time premier, and his alliance with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis threatened the Liberals' hold on the two biggest provinces...